Coping skills are important, and I certainly can and will help you with those.

Beyond coping, you want to really live your life—you want to thrive!

That’s my working assumption. If you don’t think that’s possible, that’s where our work begins—to figure out how you can regain hope. To help you embrace the belief that vitality is your birthright.

Done right, therapy helps awaken a sense of authentic hope. This is equally important for couples or individuals, adults or children. Once kindled, that new hope is enlisted to make plans—which inspire and guide actions—which build the better life you want and deserve.

Clearing space for creativity can be an important part of the process. Don’t have a creative bone in your body, you say? I say you’re wrong. Let’s talk.

During decades of doing psychotherapy with children, adults, couples and families, I have not stopped learning. I do not doubt that if we work together, I will learn from you.  

Another kind of work I do is psychoeducational evaluations of children and adults struggling with life and/or learning. Having done hundreds of these, and worked for years in schools, I know how learning can break down, and how to get it back on track. As consultant to special education attorneys, I know the system and how to coach parents to navigate it.

And in counseling parents and couples, I employ a variety of tools, bringing a depth of experience as a practitioner and a married father of grown sons. There are many ways to have a family that works; our task is to discover yours.

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A little more data: 

Where I went to school: Yale University, BA in Psychology

City University of New York, Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology

A book I wrote: How A Poem Can Happen: Conversations with Twenty-One Extraordinary Poets. 

Things I do for fun: kayak, fish, split wood, write poetry.